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Show Tricky Santa Clara Team Fails to Daunt Redskin ; Hope for Gridiron Upset After t week-long powwow on their Wasatch reservation. Big Chief Dee Armstrong and his Redskin Braves made a final rehearsal Friday of the strategy they hope will enable them to ride the wild and untamed Bronco from Santa Clara valley in the -rid oDener at Utah stadium Saturday. The kick-off will be made at 2:30' o'clock and does to 20,000 fans are expected to turn out for the game. The Utes, who were top hands tn the Big- Seven lent year, have a tough ride f1" 1 " ahead when I they, climb I board the . I Bronco which J has been ridden 1 . only three times 5 JK "fir fl In as many k, years. M j Armstrong .HZZT ' and his aids -stressed agahr the well-known fact that the Santa Clara JTT eleven can be Efffjr i expected to use a r t almost every at- Ray Peterson tack known to modern football. Forward and lateral passes, backfield back-field man in motion, weak side plays, unbalanced line, spread plays and power thrusts are all In the afternoon's work for the versatile team from the coast. Studies Plays In mapping his defense against this deceptive attack, Armstrong has been drilling his varsity all week against the reserve eleven's version of the Bronco system. While slow to master the technique tech-nique used by the Bronco offense, the Utes have become somewhat adapted to the style of play they will have to face. Although most observers figure the Santa Clara team to be at least two touchdowns stronger than the Redskins, the Utah varsity var-sity has shown no indication of accepting this prediction at face value without forcing the Broncos to play the full 60 minutes of ft-ball ft-ball and prove It. Meanwhile, Armstrong was Inclined In-clined to shy away from any predictions pre-dictions as to the relative strength of the rival elevens, but he wouldn't concede Santa Clara any more than his players would. -We know that Santa Clara has a great team, while we are untried. un-tried. We might rise to the heights Saturday and give them a real ball game, then again we might have a bad day and It's hard to tell what might happen to us. We hope to score, however,'' was the way the Utah mentor summed up the prospects. Only One Injury That bugaboo of all coaches. Old Man Injury, has been rather scarce around the Redskin reservation t this week, with only Bill Stevens, a varsity blocking back, unavailable unavail-able for duty In the opening game. Despite the fact that the Broncos Bron-cos wiU hold a slight weight advantage ad-vantage over the home dub, the Utes will have an advantage In playing on their own field, which Is some 3500 feet above the Santa Clara gridiron. 'In the light signal drills lues-dey lues-dey night, Caash aieiaHyiig jiis sumably used his nomination for the starting eleven. Carlos Softs and Pete Bogden were at the ends, Luke Pappas and Earl Peirce held down the tackle posts, Keith Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald and Rex Geary were stationed sta-tioned at the guard spots and Jim Haig saw action at center. Captain Cap-tain Jack McKlssick was calling signals, with Dale Sorenson at the blocking back, Tom Pace at the tailback and Ray Peterson at fullback. ' Only minor activities were slated slat-ed for Friday afternoon as tl.e sqilad brushed up on final preparations. prepa-rations. , In order to match Coach "Buck" , Shaw's two-team system, Armstrong Arm-strong may be forced to do much substituting. With this In mind, the Utah coach has been alternating two teams against the reserves In scrimmage. For the most pt, the second team is almost the equal of the first string, so that such a procedure will not weaken the Utes materially. The Broncos are billed as a strong, versatile team which can and does make use of a modi! red razzle-dazzle system. The Shaw version of the Notre Dame offense follows the old Rockne idea that . every play is a certain score It everyone gets his man. . Fine Defense, Tee While many columns have been devoted to the celebrated Bronco offense, little has been said about the equally potent defense. While the attack has piled up an average aver-age of 15.4 points a game, the defense de-fense has been functioning, too, holding opponents to an average of 2.7 points a game over the thiee-year thiee-year period. |